What does the speaker say about the American highway system?

讲话中都描述了哪些美国高速公路系统的事情？

Question 19: What does the speaker say about the American highway system?

讲话中都描述了哪些美国高速公路系统的事情？

And by 1985, the road was officially decommisioned from the national highway system.

到1985年，66号公路正式从国家公路系统中退役。

What was the original purpose of building a highway system?

建设高速公路系统的初衷是什么？

When was the interstate highway system mostly completed?

洲际高速公路系统什么时候实现了基本完工？

The United States has one of the best highway systems in the world.

美国有全世界最好的高速公路系统。

Living off the highway system in rural Alaska, there's less separation between outdoor life and indoor life.

在远离高速公路的阿拉斯加的乡村生活，户外生活和室内生活之间的距离更小。

In those years, just after World War I, the military wanted to build an American highway system for national defense.

在那个年代，第一次世界大战刚刚结束，军队想要建设一个美国高速公路系统来防御国家。

Think of America's rural electrification or the interstate highway system we built.

想一想美国的农村电气化或我们建造的州际公路系统。

The highway system has made it possible for people to work in a city and live outside it.

高速公路系统使人们可以在城市里工作，在城外生活。

To " decommission" means that they officially removed it from the list of freeways in the U.S. highway system.

“退役”意味着他们正式将其从美国高速公路系统的高速公路列表中删除。

Question 20: What was the original purpose of building a highway system?

问题20：建设高速公路系统的初衷是什么？

And the higher you get, you can start to see the snakings of the freeways and the highway systems and the parks and the neighborhoods.

你爬得越高，你就可以开始看到蜿蜒的高速公路、高速公路系统、公园和社区。

The road novel, the road movie — these are the most typical American ideas, born of abundant petrol, cheap cars, and a never-ending interstate highway system, the largest public works project in history.

公路小说、公路电影，这些都是最典型的美国观念，诞生于丰富的汽油、廉价的汽车和永无止境的州际高速公路系统，而公路系统则是历史上最大型的公共工程项目。

That's how she earned the nickname " Mother of the Mother Road." But as America's interstate highway system snaked across the land, Lucille's place and Route 66 were rendered obsolete.

也因此，她获得了“娘道之母”的绰号。但随着美国的州际公路系统蜿蜒穿过这片土地，露西尔的住所和 66 号公路变得过时了。

To put it even more into perspective, the sum total of all the subsidies that the US has allocated to Amtrak in its entire history, is less than one year's funding for the interstate highway system.

从更长远的角度来看，美国历史上分配给美铁的所有补贴的总和，还不到州际高速公路系统一年的资金。

And then transport those cheaply made products duty-free right across into the United States and take advantage of America's enormous highway system to ship them pretty much anywhere in the country on the backs of trucks.

然后将这些廉价产品免税运到美国，再利用美国庞大的高速公路系统，用卡车把产品运到全国各地。

For all of these reasons, it's highly likely that the Darien Gap will remain a gap in the pan-American highway system for quite some time and there's not much that you can probably ever do to change that.

由于所有这些原因，在相当长的一段时间内，达连隘口极有可能仍然是泛美公路系统中的一个缺口，你可能无法做太多事情来改变这一点。